[j-nsp] general guidelines for installing JUNOS to RE, where HDD and CF are blank

Thu Feb 10 11:18:14 EST 2011

Thats looks good...no idea why its not working.
Last time i made a install media i didnt specify the blocksize...so just
give it a try without bs=64k. Also no real need to blank the CF first.

Regards,
Jonas

Am Donnerstag, den 10.02.2011, 16:11 +0000 schrieb Martin T:
> Looks like I'm unable to boot from "PCMCIA ATA Flash Card":
> 
> <<<<<
> Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG, An Energy Star Ally
> Copyright (C) 1984-98, Award Software, Inc.
> 
> BIOS Version 1.2
> 11/02/2004-i440GX-SMC67X-2A69TU00C-00
> 
> Will try to boot from :
> PCMCIA ATA Flash Card
> Compact Flash
> Primary IDE Hard Disk
> Ethernet
> 
> Trying to Boot from PCMCIA ATA Flash Card
> 
> Trying to Boot from Compact Flash
> 
> Trying to Boot from Primary IDE Hard Disk
> >>>>>
> 
> 
> I did following:
> 
> Downloaded "install-media-10.2R3.10-export" file from Juniper Support
> page and verified MD5 hash:
> 
> root at ubuntu:/media# md5sum /media/martin/install-media-10.2R3.10-export
> 445b2820c1d67b8219d855aa7009ce4f  /media/martin/install-media-10.2R3.10-export
> root at ubuntu:/media#
> 
> ..zero-filled my CF card(it's 1GB "SiliconDrive CF", Juniper original)
> which I will use for "PC Card" adapter(SanDisk CompactFlash PC Card
> Adapter):
> 
> root at ubuntu:/media# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=10M
> dd: writing `/dev/sdb': No space left on device
> 100+0 records in
> 99+0 records out
> 1047674880 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 1096.18 s, 956 kB/s
> root at ubuntu:/media#
> 
> ..and copied install-media-10.2R3.10-export to blank /dev/sdb using dd(1):
> 
> root at ubuntu:/media# dd if=/media/martin/install-media-10.2R3.10-export
> of=/dev/sdb bs=64k
> 5199+1 records in
> 5199+1 records out
> 340752384 bytes (341 MB) copied, 356.629 s, 955 kB/s
> root at ubuntu:/media#
> 
> ..and verified, that MD5 hash of /dev/sdb is the
> same(445b2820c1d67b8219d855aa7009ce4f) as on Juniper web-site:
> 
> root at ubuntu:/media# dd if=/dev/sdb of=/media/verification2 bs=512 count=665532
> 665532+0 records in
> 665532+0 records out
> 340752384 bytes (341 MB) copied, 358.987 s, 949 kB/s
> root at ubuntu:/media# md5sum /media/verification2
> 445b2820c1d67b8219d855aa7009ce4f  /media/verification2
> root at ubuntu:/media#
> 
> As you can see, it did. According to fdisk(8) and file(1), everything
> seems to be fine as well:
> 
> root at ubuntu:/media# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
> 
> Disk /dev/sdb: 1047 MB, 1047674880 bytes
> 1 heads, 1 sectors/track, 2046240 cylinders, total 2046240 sectors
> Units = cylinders of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x00000000
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1          645053      665532       10240    4  FAT16 <32M
> /dev/sdb2   *         521      645052      322266   a5  FreeBSD
> 
> Partition table entries are not in disk order
> root at ubuntu:/media# file -s /dev/sdb
> /dev/sdb: x86 boot sector; partition 1: ID=0x4, starthead 0,
> startsector 645052, 20480 sectors; partition 2: ID=0xa5, active,
> starthead 0, startsector 520, 644532 sectors
> root at ubuntu:/media#
> 
> 
> In addition, if I put this very same "PCMCIA ATA Flash Card" to a
> working Juniper, following messages are printed to the
> /var/log/messages:
> 
> Feb 10 16:07:06   /kernel: ata2: <SILICONSYSTEMS VER2.00> at port
> 0x100-0x10f irq 15 function 0 config 1 on pccard0
> Feb 10 16:07:06   /kernel: ad3: Device does not support APM
> Feb 10 16:07:06   /kernel: ad3: 999MB <SILICONSYSTEMS INC 1GB V2.23>
> at ata2-master PIO2
> Feb 10 16:07:06   rpd[1292]: RPD_SCHED_SLIP_KEVENT: 5 sec 499048 usec
> kevent block
> Feb 10 16:07:07   chassisd[1177]: CHASSISD_SNMP_TRAP7: SNMP trap
> generated: FRU insertion (jnxFruContentsIndex 9, jnxFruL1Index 2,
> jnxFruL2Index 1, jnxFruL3Index 0, jnxFruName Routing Engine 1 PCMCIA
> Card 0, jnxFruType 6, jnxFruSlot 1)
> 
> ..however, there is no "ad3" under "show system storage":
> 
> root> show system storage | match ad3
> 
> root>
> 
> 
> Any ideas, what might cause RE-850 not to boot from this "PCMCIA ATA
> Flash Card"?
> 
> regards,
> martin
> 
> 
> 2011/2/10 Jonas Frey (Probe Networks) <jf at probe-networks.de>:
> > Martin,
> >
> > yes thats the correct way to do it. Only the pc-card slot is able to
> > fully partition both CF and HDD using a install-media image and get you
> > a fresh and blank JunOS installed.
> > It will install on both CF and HDD and thus you will have a redundant
> > setup (when either CF or HDD fails).
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jonas
> >
> >
> > Am Donnerstag, den 10.02.2011, 02:52 +0200 schrieb Martin T:
> >> Chris, Alex:
> >>
> >> so one needs to download "install-media-*", dd(1) this image(as I
> >> understand, it contains MBR and file-system with installation files)
> >> to CF and finally insert the CF to "PC Card" adapter in order to
> >> insert it into "PC Card" slot of RE-850? This will make default setup,
> >> where JUNOS is installed to CF(ad0), but /var is mounted to HDD(ad1)?
> >> In addition, how to make a redundant setup, where RE is able to boot
> >> from HDD and be fully functional if CF fails(I have CF as first boot
> >> device and HDD second one)?
> >>
> >> regards,
> >> martin
> >>
> >> 2011/2/9 Ryu, Alex <Alex.Ryu at windstream.com>:
> >> > You just need to copy installation media image to PCMCIA media, and use it for installation.
> >> > It will automatically format/partition/install JUNOS into RE during the boot.
> >> >
> >> > Alex
> >> >
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> >> > -----Original Message-----
> >> > From: juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Martin T
> >> > Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 1:00 PM
> >> > To: juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net
> >> > Subject: [j-nsp] general guidelines for installing JUNOS to RE, where HDD and CF are blank
> >> >
> >> > I have a RE-850 with Compact Flash and PATA 2.5" form factor HDD installed. However, both of these are zero-filled. What are the general guidelines to get JONOS running on this RE?
> >> >
> >> > Boot order in BIOS is following:
> >> >
> >> > PCMCIA ATA Flash Card
> >> > Compact Flash
> >> > Primary IDE Hard Disk
> >> > Ethernet
> >> >
> >> > As I have no "PCMCIA ATA Flash Card" in RE, I think it's smart to start with CF. Are the required steps something like this:
> >> >
> >> > 1) insert compact flash card(1GB) to laptop using CF-to-PC-Card adapter
> >> >
> >> > 2) create MBR partition table like this(CF card is associated with /dev/sdb):
> >> >
> >> > printf "0,1024,a5,*\n0,0\n0,0\n0,0\n;\n" | sfdisk -uM /dev/sdb
> >> >
> >> > ..it will make a partition in 1024MB size with "system ID" a5(FreeBSD) and make it bootable. Other three primary partitions are not used. In other words output should be something like this:
> >> >
> >> >   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> >> > /dev/sdb1   *           1        2030     1023088+  a5  FreeBSD
> >> >
> >> > 3) make filesystem to this /dev/sdb1 partition using ufsutils mkfs.ufs utility:
> >> >
> >> > mkfs.ufs -O 1 /dev/sdb1
> >> >
> >> > ..however, I'm very unsure, should I enable journaling, is volume name needed or any other more advanced filesystem options(?)
> >> >
> >> > 4) as I understand, now I need to install FreeBSD in order to install jinstall-xxxx.tgz bundle using pkg_add later. How to accomplish FreeBSD installation in such conditions? Which version should I install? Or are there any other possibilities to get JUNOS running on CF?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > regards,
> >> > martin
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